Car wall anchorage for cargo binders



Dec. 24, 1940. ROWE 2,226,020

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Dec. 24, 1940. MQLFROWQE 2,226,020

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Patented Dec. 24, 1940 PATENT OFF-ICE CAR WALL ANCHORAGE FOR CARGOBINDERS Martin L. Rowe, Oak Park, 111., assignor to The Gerrard Company,Inc., Chicago, 111., a corporation of Delaware Original applicationApril 9, 1936, Serial No.

73,396. Divided and this "application July 28,

1939, Serial No. 286,948 1 3 Claim.

This invention has to do with the shipment of boxes, barrels and othermerchandise containers in railway cars, and is particularly concernedwith the means employed for preventing the objects from moving about inthe car during transit.

Heretofore it has been the practice, in loading.

a car, either to block the objects against all movement by the use ofwooden braces, or else bind theobjects together into one or more largeunits which can shift longitudinally of the car under the more severeshocks and impacts. This last mentioned method, commonly known as thefloating unit load, possesses many advantages over the rigid blockingmethod, but it is not always applicable and this is particularly truewhere less than carload lots of merchandise are shipped in a socalledpool car with the various lots having to be unloaded from the car atdifferent times and places.

To meet this situation and still avoid the high material and laborexpenses involved in blocking, some shippers have used metal binders inthe form of either wire or flat strap to secure the several lotsseparately in position, and have nailed the ends of the binders to thewalls of the car, but this practice is objected to by the railroadsbecause of the injury caused to the walls of the car by the repeateddriving in of the nails and the injury .caused to subsequently loadedmerchandise by nails and pieces of binder left projecting from thewalls.

The object of the present invention is to provide an anchoring means ofnew and improved construction and arrangement which will allow metalbinders to be applied easily and quickly to the walls of a car intensioned position against the objects stowed in the car and allow the bnders to be removed just as easily and quickly, all without injuring thewalls in any way and without leaving any nails or other protrudingmembers which might injure subsequently stowed merchandise.

The anchoring means consists of a plurality of specially designedbinder-clamping devices which are located at intervals along the wallsof the car, and are preferably set back into recesses in the walls flushwith the usual sheathing. These devices will permit the metal binders tobe readily inserted and clamped therein and will hold the binderssecurely against withdrawal regardless ofthe degree to which the bindersare tensioned against the merchandise.

This application is a division of my copending application filed April9, 1936, under Serial No.

73,396. Patent No. 2,170,913 granted August 29, 1939.

While the foregoing statements are indicative in a general way of thenature of the invention,

other more specific objects and advantages will be apparent to thoseskilled in the art upon a full understanding of the construction andarrangement of the anchoring means within the 'car and the way in whichthe anchoring means are manipulated to clamp or release the binders.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is presented herein for thepurpose of exemplification, together with a slightly modified formthereof, but it will of course be appreciated that the invention issusceptible of embodiment in other structurally modified forms comingequally within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the interior of one end of a railwaycar, showing the car loaded with objects and the objects secured inposition by means of metal binders fastened to the walls e! the car bythe anchoring means of the invenion;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the same end of the car, showingthe way in which several less than carload lots of merchandise areseparately secured in position;

Fig. 3 is a top view of one of the binder fastening devices, showing theway in which the same is attached to the wall;

Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the device, taken on the line 44 ofFig. 3, showing the serrated and slotted character of the base plate;

Fig; 5 is a face view of the device; v

Fig. 6 is a view, corresponding to Fig. 3, showing the addition ofspring indexing means for maintaining the clamping plate in eitherposition into which rocked; and

Fig. 7 is a vertical section, taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 6, showingthe way in which the indexing springs are mounted in the base plate.

As will be observed in Figs. 1 and 2 of thedrawings, a number of thebinder fastening devices ID are permanently mounted on the side walls llof the car. The devices are arranged at intervals longitudinally of thecar, in opposed pairs, and also in vertical series. The sheathing on theinside of the car is cut away at the locations of the devices in orderthat the latter will be substatntially flush with the side walls and notproject to such an extent as to interfere in any way with loading. Theobjects II to be transported in the car are stowed as shown. It

three less than carload lots, A, B and C, are to be transported, forinstance, the last lot A to be bound. securely in position by means ofone or unloaded is stowed in the end of the car and more binders l3,Each of the binders I3 is in two sections H and ii. To apply the bindersB. the ends of the sections l4 and I5 are inserted in the first pair offastening devices I0, which devices" will thereupon hold the ends firmlyagainst withdrawal. The other ends of the sections l4 and I 5 are thenbrought together and tied or otherwise secured under tension at l6.-

by means of any suitable binder tensioning and fastening device. Afterthe lot A has been stowed in this manner the lots Band C are similarlystowed, employing the tensioned binders l1 and I8. To remove the lot Cat its destination, it is ,merely necessary to cut the binders l8. Thiswill the binder fastening devices l0 includes a base plate l9, twoclamping plates and a U-bolt 2|.

. The base plate I9 is fastened to the side wall II of the car in arecess 22 formed in the latter, and the clamping plates 20 arepositioned opposite the base plate, one .above the other, againstrounded projections 23 at the top, middle and opposed ends of theclamping plates 20 are rounded and grooved at- 28 to properly positionand bend the binder without producing any abrupt formation therein whichmight act to fracture the binder under extremely high tensions.

The two clamping plates 20 make a double fastener out of the device,enabling one device to grip two binders at the same time, but it will ofcourse be appreciated that in a simplified form of the device but oneclamping plate would be used. The clamping plates 20 are preferablyprovided along their upper and lower edges with flanges 29 which projectinto correspondingly shaped cut away portions 30 of the base plate.These flanges do not interfere in any way with the gripping action ofthe clamping plates 20, but they prevent the gripped ends of the bindersfrom moving either up or down beyond the ends of the serrations 3| onthe base plate.

The binder, whether it be a round wire or a flat strap, can be insertedbetween the plates from either side, and after it has been inserted andbent around the end of the clamping plate 20 in the manner shown in Fig.3, any tension applied to the binder will cause the end of the binderbetween the plates to be securely gripped tween the clamping plate 32and the base plate 34 if any slack should develop in the binder. Thespring 33 is provided with a projecting nose portion 35 which bearsagainst either one side or the other of a projection 36 on the clampingplate, with a biasing action.

I claim:

1. A metal binder fastening device for application to the side wall of afreig t car, consisting of a base plate which is adapted to be attachedto the side wall and is provided with symmetrical sides, and a clampingplate which is pivotally mounted at its center on the base plate and isprovided with symmetrical ends, whereby to grip a binder between eitherof its ends and the base plate when the binder is trained about itsother end, said device permitting the binder to be gripped when insertedbetween the plates from either end.

, 2. A metal binder fastening device for application to the side wall ofa freight car, consisting of a base plate which is adapted to beattached to the side wall and is provided with symmetrical sides, aclamping plate which is pivotally mounted intermediate its ends on thebase plate and is provided with symmetrical ends, whereby to grip abinder between one of its ends and the base plate when the binder istrained about its other end, said device permitting the binder to begripped when inserted between the plates from either end, and means formaintaining the clamping plate in gripping engagement with the binderafter the clamping plate has been rocked in either direction on the baseplate into such engagement.

3. A metal binder fastening device for application to the side wall of afreight car, consisting of a base plate which is provided withoppositely provided with rounded and grooved ends in front of thebeveled ends of the base plate for pivotal movement in either directioninto generally parallel relation thereto, and a U-shaped bolt whichengages with the back of the clamping plate at the center of the latterand is adapted to be secured within the side wall in such position as toprovide a pivotal mounting for the clamping plate with respect to thebase plate, whereby a binder inserted between either of the ends of theclamping plate and the base plate and trained around the other end ofthe clamping plate and tensioned will be gripped between the plates.

MARTIN L. ROWE.

